P. J. Bailey Quotes

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit.

Each of us is like a diamond, and each of us has the potential to be brilliant.

Change is your friend not your foe, change is a brilliant opportunity to grow.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.

The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

I love fashion, I love architecture and I love image making so if I can, I would put all these three in one pot.

There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

I tend to go through periods worrying, "Where am I going, I can't see a way out of this," and it becomes quite stressful. But sometimes you have to take a bet on yourself.

I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.

Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.

Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

The temples perish, but the God still lives.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.